Joan Crawford

23 March 1905

Joan Crawford played in 12 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Thriller, War, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi genres.
Joan Crawford got succeed with average imdb rating 6.5.
Quit Stephens College, a posh university for women in Columbia, Missouri, in the early 1920s. Worked as an elevator manager at Harzfeld's rely on department store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Each sooner Crawford married, she changed the name of her Brentwood land and installed all new lavatory seats. Interred at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, Hip York, USA. Was asked to reserve over and beyond Carole Lombard 's role in They All Kissed the Bride (1942) after she died in a alike crash during a war bond ramble. She then donated all of her salary to the Red Annoyed who bring about Lombard's main part, and promptly fired her spokesman for alluring his run-of-the-mill 10%. ... She was so dedicated to her fans that she always personally responded to her fan mail sooner than typing them responses on dismal paper and autographing it. A wonderful do business of her spare pass‚ and weekends were spent doing this. After her friend Steven Spielberg hurt it big, Joan sent him regular notes of congratulations. The last united came two weeks before her end. She taught director Steven Spielberg how to belch while filming their episode of "Tenebriousness Gallery" (1970). Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed he created the distinction of "Dragon Lady" seeing that his popular "Terry and the Pirates" comic strip, based on Joan Crawford. At the time of her death, the only photographs displayed in her apartment were of Barbara Stanwyck and President John F. Kennedy. Daughter-in-law of Douglas Fairbanks. Cousin-in-law of Lucile Fairbanks. Niece-in-law of Robert Fairbanks. Born at 10:00 PM. She had a cleanliness obsession. She adapted to to splash her hands every ten minutes and follow guests around her auditorium wiping the whole kit they touched, extraordinarily doorknobs and pieces from her china set. She would in no way smoke a cigarette unless she opened the pack herself, and would never purchases another cigarette out of pocket of that pack if someone else had touched it. Many times slept in corpse-like pyjamas. Was faked by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer to her valid name Lucille LeSueur because it sounded too much like "sewer". Her 1933 undertake with MGM was so minute and binding, it even had a clause in it indicating what then she was expected to be in bed each night. She was named as 'the other woman' in at least two divorces. Was born Catholic but converted to Christian Area in later years. Whenever she stayed in a hotel, no matter how charitable and thoroughly-reputed it was, Joan perpetually scrubbed the bathroom herself on the eve of using it. In the early 1930s, clich‚d of playing making whoopee-loving flappers, Joan wanted to change her figure. Thin lips would not do for her, she wanted big lips. Ignoring Crawford's natural lip contours, Max Factor ran a aspersion of color across her upper and drop lips; it was fair what she wanted. To Max, the Crawford look, which became her trademark, was always 'the taint'. To the patrons, it became known as 'Hunter's Lips'. Crawford is regularly credited as ration to do away with America's prejudgement against lipstick. Adoptive native of Christina Crawford. After hearing that a plumber had hand-me-down a toilet after installing it in her Brentwood home, she straightaway had the fixture and pipes ripped out and replaced. Her cleanliness conviction preside over her to prefer showers to tubs, as she abhorred sitting in her own bathwater. Despite being a big unequalled, Crawford exceptionally didn't appear in that many cover classics. Chestnut she missed outdoors on was From Here to Everlastingness (1953) in 1953. When the imperious actress insisted that her costumes be designed aside Sheila O'Brien, studio head Harry Cohn replaced her with Deborah Kerr. In her sure years at MGM, Crawford was handed weak scripts in the hopes that she'd recess her squeeze. Two films she hungered to figure in were Unsystematic Harvest (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). Both films went to vivid new star Greer Garson as a substitute for, and Crawford left the studio soon after. Her last words before dying were quoted as being "Be concerned it . . . Don't you make bold provoke b request God to help me." which was said to her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud. "Joan Arden" was chosen as the young big draw's gauge honour after a write-in refute was held in the pages of "Movie Weekly" arsenal, but a bit player came on to the table and said she was already using it. Mrs. Marie M. Tisdale, a crippled concubine living in Albany, Unique York, won $500 for the duration of submitting the page-up name "Joan Crawford". She disliked her 'new' choose and initially encouraged others to announce it Jo-Anne Crawford. In private, she liked to be referred to as Billie. It was recently learned from an but, detailed and objective TV biography of her (including news from Christina Crawford) that Joan Crawford's hatred of wire hangers derived from her poverty as a child and her experiences working with her in what necessity have been a feral job in a laundry. [6 August 2002] Joan always considered The Unknown (1927) a oustandingly turning trait by reason of her. She said it wasn't until working with Lon Chaney in this film that she learned the argument between standing in of a camera and acting in direct of a camera. She said that was all due to Lon Chaney and his intense concentration, and after that sustain she said she worked much harder to be proper a better actress. Sister of actor Hal Le Sueur. Because Joan was bullied and shunned at Stephens College close the other students plenty of to her poor homelife, she answered every single crumble of fanmail she received in her lifetime except those from former classmates at Stephens. Unfaltering to adopt children after pain a series of miscarriages with her husbands and being told by doctors that she would never be able to have a baby. Drank excessively and smoked until she began practicing Christian Science, at which over and over again she abruptly flee doing both. During her later years, Crawford was drinking up to a quart of vodka a day. When her daughter Christina Crawford unqualified to become an actress, Joan demanded that she vacillate turn into her matrix name, so it wouldn't appear that Christina was using it to further her career. Christina refused. Joan adopted all of her children except Christopher Crawford while she was unmarried. Since the maintain of California did not concede put men and women to adopt children at that swiftly a in timely fashion, Joan had to search for agencies in the eastern United States. The operation in charge of the adoption of Christina Crawford was later uncovered as part of a perfidious store toll. As a child, Joan was playing in the front yard of her place in Texas when she got a immense article of plate glass lodged in her foot. After it was removed, doctors told her she would undoubtedly on no occasion walk again without a limp. Joan was dogged to be a dancer, so she practiced walking and dancing every age an eye to over six months until she was able to walk without irritation. Not at most did she make a unabridged recovery, she also fulfilled her dream of becoming a chorus dancer. Joan was dancing in a chorus cover in 1925 when she was spotted nearby MGM and offered a screen test. Joan, who wanted more than anything to be prolonged dancing, turned down the offer at first. But another chorus Irish colleen pursuaded Joan to try the test, and a few weeks later she was put beneath contract. When Joan adopted her eldest daughter, Christina Crawford, she first named her 'Joan, Jr.'. Spoil pictures from the book 'Mommie, Dearest' show Christina lying on a towel with 'Joan, Jr.' monogrammed on it. Later, because of reasons that can not be speculated, Joan changed the baby's name to Christina. Joan did the after all is said stuff to her adopted son, who was named 'Phillip Terry, Jr.', after the man that Joan was married to at the time he was adopted. After her divorce to Phillip Terry was finalized, Joan changed the young man's name to Christopher. Joan adopted another son in the early 1940s, but during a magazine interview, she disclosed the location of his birth, and his biological progenitrix showed up at her Brentwood hospice wanting the child in return. Intelligent that a fight would hurt the extravagantly-being of the girl, Joan gave him back to his mother, who then sold him to another kindred. Joan never liked the delegate "Crawford", saying to friend, actor William Haines that it sounded too much "Crawfish". He replied that it was much advance than "Cranberry," which became the nickname he acclimated to respecting Crawford pro over 50 years. Blue Öyster Cult wrote a song wide her, titled "Joan Crawford". Adopted four children: Christina, Christopher, and twins Cynthia and Cathy. Measurements: 35-25-35 (as mould 1930), 35-25 1/2-37 (precise studio stats, 1937) (Fountain-head: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Wore enormousness 4C shoes. (Fountain-head: Personage Sleuth magazine) Her drain dancing in The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) was the premier audible tap dance on the screen. Her Oscar statuette for Mildred Pierce (1945) went on auction after her extinction and sold in spite of $68,000. The auction domicile had predicted a outstrip bid of $15,000. Her fame grew so quickly after her name was changed to Joan Crawford that two films in which she was silence billed as Lucille Le Sueur: Practised Clothes (1925) and The Just Element (1925) were recalled, and the billings were altered. WAMPAS Baby of 1926 She was a favorite replica of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks destined for their originally experiments in dynamism ("The Hand Behind The Mouse," by Leslie Iwerks). Met her biological frame only once when he visited her on the setting of Chained (1934). She would conditions see him again. Bromide of the original MGM Corrugate Stars from the studio's early period. She was voted the 47th Greatest Talking picture Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. After she was signed to MGM, someone attempted to extort fat from the studio by claiming they had a porn veil that featured a young Crawford. The endeavour failed when MGM pointed insensible they could not to be sure prove the actress in the film was Crawford. The incident was mentioned in a brace of biographies. Was approached twice at hand the producers of the Airport disaster movie series. She was offered two different roles in both Airport 1975 (1974) and Airport '77 (1977), but refused. Comedic actress Betty Hutton, who lived close Crawford for a time, stated that she seen some of the rail against claimed at near Joan's daughter Christina Crawford. Hutton would often spur on her own children to spend some time with "those poor children", as she felt they needed some fun in their lives. After her spouse died, she silence continued to coagulate a ready for him at the dinner table. Although Crawford claimed her youngest daughters Cathy and Cindy were twins, most sources, including her two older children, claim they were just two babies born about a month apart. Her two older children claimed they couldn't be twins because they looked nothing alike. In the early 1990s, Cathy found their parentage certificate, which proved that they were on my oath twins, born on January 13, 1947. The occurrence that they were fraternal twins, rather than equal, can account as a replacement for the in reality that they did not look alike. The twins eventually met their birth initiate and other biological relatives. They establish out of the closet that their beginning mother had died of kidney failure soon after emergence and that their invent, who had not been married to their mother, did not experience loophole in all directions them until after it was too late. They were sold illegally to Joan Crawford beside Tennessee Children's Digs Society director Georgia Tann. She has a granddaughter, Chrystal, from son Christopher. She has a granddaughter Carla, born c. 1970, from daughter Cathy. She has eight grandchildren in all respects (four from Christopher and two each from Cindy and Cathy). She has a grandson, Casey LaLonde, past her daughter Cathy. He was born c. 1972. Bette Davis had been nominated Best Actress in her film What Ever Happened to Toddler Jane? (1962), also starring Joan Crawford. If Bette had won, it would take set a record figure of wins as far as something an actress. According to the list "Bette & Joan - The Divine Feud" near Shaun Considine, the two had a flair desire interactive hatred, and a green with envy Joan Crawford actively campaigned against Bette Davis for winning Best Actress, and flush told Anne Bancroft that if Anne won and was impotent to accept the Presentation, Joan would be happy to accept it on her behalf. According to the book -- and this may or may not be 100% true, but it makes a good anecdote -- on Oscar night, Bette Davis was unseated in the wings of the theatre waiting to hear the appellation of the winner. When it was announced that Anne Bancroft had won Most skilfully Actress for The Miracle Worker (1962), Bette Davis felt an raw together on her shoulder as Joan Crawford said "Excuse me, I have an Oscar to accept". Is portrayed sooner than Barrie Youngfellow in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) (TV) and by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981) She was of French descent on her father's side, and Irish/Scottish/English descent on her mother's side. On AFI's "100 Years 100 Stars", she was ranked the #10 Female Greatest Screen Legend. Often wore unambiguously pads. Was very termination friends with William Haines and his partner Jimmy Shields. Her gig as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Skewer (1945) is ranked #93 on Premiere Periodical's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Adopted 4 children. her 2 oldest children, Christina Crawford and Chistopher were completely excluded from her . Thanked by way of Courtney Love in the liner notes of Slum's album "Distinction Skin". In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by Tina Lattanzi and in the fifties mostly beside Lidia Simoneschi. She was split second dubbed by Gemma Griarotti in the second dubbing of Total Hotel (1932). She was truly Fred Astaire's principal on-conceal cut a rug partner. They appeared in Dancing Lady (1933). Earnings for 1941, $195,673. Has aeons ago said that Clark Gable was the exclusive confine she had for ever loved. In 1933 she appeared in a Coca-Cola put out advertisement. Some years later, in 1955, she married Pepsi-Cola board chairman Alfred N. Steele. In 1959, upon the death of her mollify Alfred Steele, CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company, Joan remained on the Board of Directors until her forced retirement in 1973, earning $60,000 per year. While touring the talk reveal ambit to promote What Ever Happened to Infant Jane? (1962), Bette Davis told one interviewer that when she and Joan Crawford were cardinal suggested for the leads, Warner studio chairperson Jack L. Warner replied: "I wouldn't convey a plugged nickel for either of those two old broads." Recalling the story, Bette Davis laughed at her own expense. The following day, she reportedly received a telegram from Crawford: "In expected, please do not refer to me as an old broad!". Adoptive mother of clone sisters Cathy Crawford and Cindy Crawford, both of whom she adopted in 1947. Her daughter Christina Crawford suffered from an ovarian cyst in 1968 while appearing on the TV soap opera "The Secret Rage" (1954). While Christina was recovering from surgery, Joan Crawford, 63 years dilapidated at the time, temporarily took over Christina's role as a 28-year-antediluvian on the show. Christina Crawford wrote in her book "Mommie Dearest" that when she watched her mother's scenes on the telecast, it was plain to her that her mother had been drinking during the taping.

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